Verhofstadt admitted that in an interview, after insisting that rules are rules and must be followed, and then backing down when it was pointed out that the hundreds of billions in EU bailouts are illegal and specifically so under the Maastricht Treaty, yet no member dares to protest.
His only defence would be that the EU are not bailing out member countries that are in trouble, which would be illegal, but simply using those troubled members as a conduit to bail out Deutsche and French banks.
Real smart, these political thingies.